There's a lot of discussion regarding trunk spatter paint. Because it contains both water & oil based components (hence the spatter effect) it can 'run' if you don't clearcoat it. 

Anyone got a story on how they did theirs? It's a great look when done properly but I'm going to look for alternatives.

I was told that the water based splatter paint was the cause of the trunk floors rotting out🙄

 Not sure if thats True but it came from my mate who sold me the spare 64 chassis and i have a whole 64 Catalina trunk floor in mint condition sitting in the spare car .

 he claimed these rust free floors are hard to find🙄

I did clear coat my trunk when I re-did the spatter paint in Lucy. It was part of a two-step paint system. I think the other reason to do it is the clear coat smooths out some of the trunk spatter's natural roughness - it clearly didn't eliminate 100% of it, but I'm okay with that.

Edited September 6, 20205 yr by Frosty

15 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

I was told that the water based splatter paint was the cause of the trunk floors rotting out🙄

 Not sure if thats True but it came from my mate who sold me the spare 64 chassis and i have a whole 64 Catalina trunk floor in mint condition sitting in the spare car .

 he claimed these rust free floors are hard to find🙄

Basically that’s true!  If You’ve ever seen a trunk that was done in spatter paint that was exposed to water for any extended period or over and over the paint tends to lift and then hold water! As once the paint gets wet tends to hold moisture. 

Clear coat does help, but only if the top surface is well covered and the intruding moisture is from on top. 

Unfortunately most of the time it comes in from under the paint/bottom side. Like where panels are spot welded together! So it is important that before you use spatter paint you clean the areas where panels go together very well! Then you need to remove all the old drip check caulk and use new high quality drip check caulk to fill all the seams! Then use the spatter paint and clear coat. In the case of most of those cars that used spatter paint, today they’re not going to see much in the way of inclement weather.

Edited September 6, 20205 yr by Last Indian

As usual, I'm going to go my own way and try something different. I have some ideas and shall post any success stories,  but shall also regale you with horror fails!

A spray painter mate told me that if you use car paint with a spray gun without thinning it at all, it'll naturally spray erratically-homemade spatter! I think he needs to lay off the gear. I'll try my own way.

26 minutes ago, Fitzy said:

As usual, I'm going to go my own way and try something different. I have some ideas and shall post any success stories,  but shall also regale you with horror fails!

A spray painter mate told me that if you use car paint with a spray gun without thinning it at all, it'll naturally spray erratically-homemade spatter! I think he needs to lay off the gear. I'll try my own way.

You could just fill a paper bag full of paint, blow it up and pop it. That would spatter! Just kidding mate!

 

Fitzy you can always try the hammer-to-the-spray-can technique. Of course, the real trick is getting the spatter just right. You might need more than one can! 

Edited September 7, 20205 yr by Frosty

3 hours ago, Frosty said:

 

Fitzy you can always try the hammer-to-the-spray-can technique. Of course, the real trick is getting the spatter just right. You might need more than one can! 

Yeah Fitzy!!! get a kid to paint it !!!Hahaha

I'm not exactly sure what the "spatter paint" look is. Surely it cant be what I'm picturing lol. Could one of yall post a pic so I can better understand? 

Thanks.

Here is the splatter paint on my spare trunk floor wrong way 

Hmmmm, thanks Kiwi. After Fitzy telling us what his buddy said about running paint thru a paint gun with no thinner I was curious to see what it "should" look like.

Yeah, don't worry. I WON'T be going down that particular garden path.

I selectively painted some parts of the trunk area in grey, to lighten it up and shall decide what to do in order to introduce some sort of speckle finish. 

I hear ya Fitzy. I've painted 6 or 7 cars for sure and least a dozen motorcycles for people not counting my own over the years. I love metal flake and candies. The bigger the flake the more excited I get lol.  My mail box was even blue flake until a distracted mailman ran it over. Its now blue with white roses (shot over lace) for my wife. So I'm always interested to hear and see other ways of doing things. I heard about really interesting "new" technique a few months back, you can laugh (i did) but its totally true! Has anybody heard of DNA painting or DNA marking a paint?

DNA..... hand painting with a Qtip swabbed off your cheek?  Think they call that a Covid test bro.....

 I seriously just laughed out loud bro! But no, and it is a real thing apparently! I 1st heard of it at a friends body shop a few months ago. They were having a conversation about putting a guys DNA into his paint! I laughed and called BS! So I was told that you can do it with any color and not affect the shade of the color because your putting such a small amount in. You can use ANY type of liquid that contains DNA. For example, a basic Chrysler white, you can put a drop or a couple of drops of blood or sweat (were sticking with those lol) into a gallon of paint. Its such a small amount that it will not tint then paint. Buts it IS enough to confuse a paint sniffer if anybody ever tries to repaint it. I was told the it gives a "truly one of a kind paint job"! The 2nd time I heard about it, I had a guy come by one day. He said that my buddy didn't have time to paint his car and sent him over. My buddy had painted his bike a few months ago and told me he would NEVER do anymore work for this guy. He has a really nice 55' and wants it shot in single stage black with a DNA code. WTF!? He was dead serious and willing to pay extra for it. I did not take the 55' job. I just had to much going on at the time and after my buddy telling me the ghost flame story on this guys bike I wasn't willing to take a chance on this guy being a total flake. lol

2 hours ago, Wrongway said:

 I seriously just laughed out loud bro! But no, and it is a real thing apparently! I 1st heard of it at a friends body shop a few months ago. They were having a conversation about putting a guys DNA into his paint! I laughed and called BS! So I was told that you can do it with any color and not affect the shade of the color because your putting such a small amount in. You can use ANY type of liquid that contains DNA. For example, a basic Chrysler white, you can put a drop or a couple of drops of blood or sweat (were sticking with those lol) into a gallon of paint. Its such a small amount that it will not tint then paint. Buts it IS enough to confuse a paint sniffer if anybody ever tries to repaint it. I was told the it gives a "truly one of a kind paint job"! The 2nd time I heard about it, I had a guy come by one day. He said that my buddy didn't have time to paint his car and sent him over. My buddy had painted his bike a few months ago and told me he would NEVER do anymore work for this guy. He has a really nice 55' and wants it shot in single stage black with a DNA code. WTF!? He was dead serious and willing to pay extra for it. I did not take the 55' job. I just had to much going on at the time and after my buddy telling me the ghost flame story on this guys bike I wasn't willing to take a chance on this guy being a total flake. lol

You are a wise man.